Times Square fare evaders costing city $4,000 a day alone

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MANHATTAN, N.Y. — The MTA says 4 percent of subway riders each and every day choose not the pay their way. Is it lack of enforcement? Fewer station agents? Protesting riders peeved over poor service?

It’s not known what drives people to jump the turnstile, but it is costing New Yorkers in a big way — and no place is it happening more than in Times Square, where people skip out on paying once a minute, the New York Times reports.

This means big bucks — $165 an hour is lost, or $4,000 a day. This translates to $118,000 a month or a whopping $1.425 million each year.

Gwen Lytle, who commutes from Monroe, said the MTA should follow in the footsteps of other countries.